a thousand times yes!
Some things about Pavement that I fully endorse. Well, okay, not fully-fully — Crooked Rain really does have their best songs. On the other hand, it also has "Hit The Plane Down".
Brighten The Corners is a bit more consistent, I think. And Stereogum is also totally, totally right in defending Malkmus's much-maligned eponymous debut — I really think it's the best of his solo efforts. I guess there are two camps of Pavement fans: those who liked the band for its scraggly pop, and those who prefer its ponderous low-fi noodling. I belong squarely in the first category, and so does that album.
Anyway, sorry for the lack of blogging recently (although Catherine's been picking up the slack admirably). We're moving into a new office, which has given me the opportunity to waste a lot of time playing with our new phone system and, uh, trying to make a company-themed skin for the softmodded xbox I'll be contributing to the new digs. Constructive uses of my time, as you can see.
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you know i don't think i've ever met anyone else who actually likes his first solo album. i don't get it. i was talking with a coworker, a huge fan of pavement, this weekend who was vehement in his hate for the album. it's weird.
well that's cos the first album stinks.
the only good one is the latest, and that's only by default.
but the first album doesn't stink! i really do like it.
Two words: Wowee Zowee
I think someone could devise a really trenchant, accurate way of gauging exactly what kind of hipster you are by analyzing how you rank Pavement's output. Or at least what years you were at college.
1. Brighten the Corners
2. Slanted/Enchanted
3. Westing (By Musket & Sextant)
4. Crooked Rain
5. Wowee
6. anything else
Scraggly pop! But my favorite is BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS.
Also: liked the first solo, but the second has a bad case of the mehs.
"hit the plane down" makes me irrationally angry.
it is the worst. song. ever.
it's hard to really love pavement, knowing that it exists.
I agree completely. Pavement is one of those bands where you find yourself wondering whether they're geniuses, or whether they were incompetents fucking around, and really you're just a dope who would like anything if he listened to enough. Hit The Plane Down does not help with that struggle.
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